What is the Grounding Problem?

deRosset, Louis

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“…I believe similar regresses will arise for other answers e.g. using differing identity properties [deRosset ] or grounding relations [Saenz ; Korman : 212‐16] instead of intentional relations. Other solutions have different problems. Hylomorphism [Fine ; Koslicki ] (and similar theories [Paul ]) say that s and l 's differing properties are explained by their having different properties as proper parts (e.g.…”

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Mereological Nominalism

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2018

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“…So, in assuming the soundness of multiple realizability arguments of this sort, I in effect assume that proposals appealing to biconditional determination relations, including Sider's proposal, are off the table. 9 See [Audi, 2012], [Correia, 2010], [deRosset, 2010[deRosset, , 2011[deRosset, , 2013, [Fine, 2001], [Rosen, 2010], [Schaffer, 2009], and [Trogdon, 2009]. is highly plausible to think that both Thomson and Obama are successful in virtue of two facts: that Thomson is successful, and that Obama is successful. (This last case illustrates the idea that the 'in virtue of' operator that we use to express ground may take more than one sentence in its explanans place.)…”

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“…These are the materials we need to seamlessly capture the idea that there is a layered structure of theories but no corresponding layered structure of facts. 20 See [deRosset, 2015] for a formal statement of the principles in play here, together with a semantics for claims of ground. 21 The commitment to congeries is a central feature of the view I sketch.…”

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Grounding the Unreal

deRosset

2017

Philos Phenomenol Research

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The scientific successes of the last 400 years strongly suggest a picture on which our scientific theories exhibit a layered structure of dependence and determination. Economics is dependent on and determined by psychology; psychology in its turn is, plausibly, dependent on and determined by biology; and so it goes. It is tempting to explain this layered structure of dependence and determination among our theories by appeal to a corresponding layered structure of dependence and determination among the entities putatively treated by those theories. In this paper, I argue that we can resist this temptation: we can explain the sense in which, e.g., the biological truths are dependent on and determined by chemical truths without appealing to properly biological or chemical entities. This opens the door to a view on which, though there are more truths than just the purely physical truths, there are no entities, states, or properties other than the purely physical entities, states, and properties. I argue that some familiar strategies to explicate the idea of a layered structure of theories by appeal to reduction, ground, and truthmaking encounter difficulties. I then show how these difficulties point the way to a more satisfactory treatment which appeals to something very close to the notion of ground. Finally, I show how this treatment provides a theoretical setting in which we might fruitfully frame debates about which entities there really are.

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“…Nevertheless, there are reasons for doubting that these relations come for “free” (Lycan, ; Byrne). Recently, much discussion of dependence has been going on under the guise of “grounding” (see deRossetand Trogdon forthcoming). For more on ontological dependence, see Fine (), Correia (), Bennett (2011a,,), and Trogdon (forthcoming).…”

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Physicalism and Moorean Supervenience

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2013

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What is the Grounding Problem?

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